By SJ Otto
Traditionally US liberals don’t like guns. Many support gun control and many don’t own any guns. That has lead to the Misconception that all people on the left don’t like guns. As in this article: “And if there’s ever any attempt to take over the country, guess who’s going to win it, because the puke liberals are too scared to have guns, and we’ve got the guns.”
Some time ago I was at a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) meeting and one of their members noticed that way more conservative people own guns than leftists. He said that is something we can’t leave that way. He noticed that it is dangerous for people on the left to just leave all the conservatives to own guns. He was right.
A lot of Marxists today oppose gun control and they encourage their members to own guns. That perception that conservatives have the upper hand because they own guns needs to stop. We need to encourage people on the left, whether Marxist or just democratic socialists, or even some liberals, need to own guns and learn how they work. It is easy to just talk about guns. But using them is another thing.
If we remember back to
“theGreensboro massacre which took place on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Four members of the Communist Workers' Party (CWP) and a male protester were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party (ANP) during a Death to the Klan march, organized by the CWP.”Wikipedia.
Traditionally US liberals don’t like guns. Many support gun control and many don’t own any guns. That has lead to the Misconception that all people on the left don’t like guns. As in this article: “And if there’s ever any attempt to take over the country, guess who’s going to win it, because the puke liberals are too scared to have guns, and we’ve got the guns.”
Some time ago I was at a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) meeting and one of their members noticed that way more conservative people own guns than leftists. He said that is something we can’t leave that way. He noticed that it is dangerous for people on the left to just leave all the conservatives to own guns. He was right.
A lot of Marxists today oppose gun control and they encourage their members to own guns. That perception that conservatives have the upper hand because they own guns needs to stop. We need to encourage people on the left, whether Marxist or just democratic socialists, or even some liberals, need to own guns and learn how they work. It is easy to just talk about guns. But using them is another thing.
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It was not enough that the CWP members carried guns. They didn’t seem too familiar with using them. The Klan and Nazis were very good with their guns. They were able to use their guns and they did. It was a four to zero score. Years later, many people on the left criticized the CWP for not being serious enough to take on the Klan and Nazis. That is a lesson for all of us. Just waving guns around is not enough. We need to be able to use them.
From Media Matters:
RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): OK, so this is how it works, now the staff is all paranoid. I go to walk it back, I got to walk back what I just said because, “You really want to leave it out there that you expect people with guns to pick up their arms and go shooting these people?”
I never said that. All I did was point out that we’ve got all these braggarts out there, writing at all these blogs that they’ve got all the guns. “And if there’s ever any attempt to take over the country, guess who’s going to win it, because the puke liberals are too scared to have guns, and we’ve got the guns.”
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